Silent Spring
- ISBN-10
- 0395453909
- ISBN-13
- 9780395453902
- Series
- Silent Spring
- Category
- Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Author
- Rachel Carson
Description
Silent Spring spurred revolutionary changes in government policy toward the environment and made the word "ecology" a part of everyone's vocabulary. One of the landmark books of the 20th century. 18 line drawings.
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